When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...
The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...
Two science teams pored over samples from the B-type asteroid Bennu, finding chemicals linked to the beginnings of life and ...
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
The building blocks of DNA have been found in samples returned to Earth from an asteroid, suggesting life rained down from ...
Samples of asteroid Bennu contain molecules that suggest the "conditions necessary for life" were widespread across the early ...
Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...